Heather Rose of WROE-LP (Radio Free Roanoke 95.7 FM) interviewed Robert Schultz in her series, “The Creative Process,” which explores sources and modes of the creativity in art, writing, and daily life. The 30-minute interview can be heard below or by visiting the WROE-LP website.
For one year during the covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Robert Schultz made notes and art in a daily practice of reflection and observation. To accompany his wide-ranging entries, he browsed his wife’s gardens, bringing in small, local beauties to photograph on his scanner. Things blooming and failing in their seasons mark our collective progress through a…
Robert Schultz received the “Art Search” prize conducted by Streetlight Magazine and Chroma Projects gallery for his Against the Dark project. Streetlight ran an illustrated feature and the Against the Dark exhibition was mounted in the Chroma Projects “Vault” gallery in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia in February 2022.
The photographic artwork of Robert Schultz was featured in FRAMES Magazine (Vol. 4, July 2021) in a 16-page spread that included seven works accompanied by Schultz’s remarks. The photographs included leafprints of Walt Whitman and Civil War combatants, drawing images from the Liljenquist Family Collection in the US Library of Congress. The seven works were…
Since 2019 Robert Schultz’s art has appeared in two solo exhibitions and 27 juried group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the U.S. In the process he has received eight awards, including the juror’s award, first prize, or gold medal five times. The awards were made in association with exhibitions in such venues as SoHo…
Michael Kirchoff, Editor-in-Chief of Analog magazine, named one of Schultz’s works among his “Ten-Best Photographs of 2021.” The year-end issue of Analog included an image Schultz’s work, “How the Dead Speak: Unidentified Union soldier and woman.”
The Portfolio Award in the 2020 San Francisco Bay Area International Photograph Awards went to Robert Schultz’s series of six leafprints, and one of the works, “Young Union Soldier in a Nasturtium Leaf,” was awarded the competition’s Gold Medal. As a result, Schultz’s work was featured in Bokeh Bokeh photography magazine.
A film crew traveled to Salem, Virginia to interview Robert Schultz for a segment in the Smithsonian Channel’s series, “Combat Ships,” that surveys warships over the ages. The episode “Top Gun” recounted the terrifying efficacy of the WWII depth charge, and its prime example was the 13-hour depth-charge attack survived by the WWII submarine U.S.S.…
Robert Schultz’s Streetlight Art Search-winning work will be exhibited at the Chroma Projects unique “vault” gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia February 4-25, 2022. The exhibition, curated by Deborah McLeod, includes prints and journal entries from Schultz’s Specimens of the Plague Year as well as chlorophyll print portraits of writers Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Rachel Carson. Schultz’s specimen prints were made using items gathered in his wife’s gardens which he scanned in a darkened room with the scanner’s lid removed. The Chroma Projects gallery is located upstairs directly across from The Front Porch, 3 rd Street S.E., Charlottesville, Virginia. Purchase inquiries should be addressed to Deborah…
Robert Schultz’s first solo museum exhibition opened at the Athenaeum in Alexandria, Virginia August 12. “Memorial Leaves” draws inspiration from Walt Whitman’s prediction that the nation’s civil war dead will inhabit “every future grain of wheat and ear of corn, and every flower that grows, and every breath we draw.” The exhibition’s chlorophyll prints–portraits of…
Early praise for Robert Schultz’s new book of poems Into the New World (SLANT Books, Fall 2020) says it “gives us renewed hope in this uncertain age” and calls it “very much a book for our charged and dangerous moment.”
Robert Schultz’s “Reliquary” is an archival print made of an assemblage of items that includes a chlorophyll print, plant specimens, and a locust. This work was selected for exhibition in the “New Photography II” show at the Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD juried by Philip Brookman, Consulting Curator at the National Gallery of Art. The…
The Facebook site of the new photography magazine FRAMES has posted a podcast with Robert Schultz as interviewed by Scott Olson. Subjects include “cameraless photography” techniques in chlorophyll prints and scanography, as well as the genesis of Schultz’s collaborations with the San Francisco Bay Area photographer, Binh Danh. You can listen to the podcast here.
Robert Schultz’s Fall Composition with Magnolia Seeds will be included in the Taubman Museum of Art’s “Homeward Bound” exhibition, its 2021 juried triennial of works by Virginia artists.